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Latest Articles
How beneficial is professional sport to the indigenous community?
3 Dec 2012There wouldn’t be an Australian over the age of 20 who doesn’t vividly remember Cathy Freeman’s run in the final of the women’s 400m final at the Sydney Olympics. Indigenous Australians have made tremendous and often visually spectacular contributions to Australian Sport. In our two national football codes the likes of Jonathon Thurston and Adam [...]
The art of quarterbacking
23 Nov 2012Is there a more demanding role in sport than than of the NFL starting quarterback? I think not. Sometimes it’s easy to get blasé about the skills of the very best quarterbacks like Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Peyton Manning and become overly critical of the quarterbacks at the bottom end of the NFL Spectrum. [...]
NFL 2012 recap - the season so far
4 Oct 2012Roughly a quarter of the way through the NFL 2012 Season and what do we know? Well, for a start, my August 18 Roar Superbowl Prediction – Ravens v Falcons – is very much alive and kicking. Now let’s have serious look at the state of play. Houston are ticking along beautifully at the moment, [...]
Finally, the new NFL season is coming
18 Aug 2012The NFL fills a satisfying niche for this Australian football fan. Just when the AFL and NRL regular seasons are winding down, along comes the NFL with a full schedule, beginning with the first match of round one on September 6 (our time). And what a season it looks to be. I can’t remember a [...]
Forget the Olympics, what about an Olympiad year?
21 Apr 2012I think most of us are over the overblown corporate and media hype surrounding the Olympic Games. We are completely nonplussed by the money the International Olympic Committee (IOC) makes and the dodgy bidding processes involved. My solution is to disband or dramatically reduce the IOC and National Olympic Committees. They should replace the quadrennial [...]
Contest, attack, defend: the key to victories
5 Apr 2012One of the main reasons I enjoyed the book Moneyball so much was that I felt like I was reading about a bunch of kindred spirits, people who were seeking better analysis of a game through more meaningful statistics. The difference was that I was looking at AFL football. That and my motivation to beat [...]
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